Science Quotes
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.Joseph Addison
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.Henri Poincare
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.Hasidic Saying
The true science and study of man is man.Pierre Charron
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.John Von Neumann
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.Marie Curie
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.Arthur C. Clarke
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.Sir Francis Bacon
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.Anonymous
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.Andrew Schneide
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.Rudolf Virchow
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.Albert Einstein
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Science is organized knowledge.Herbert Spence
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.Richard Feynman
Politics is no exact science.Otto von Bismark
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.George Santayana
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.Louis Pasteu
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - - The apathy of human beings.Helen Kelle
